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BLACK MAJESTY by COUNTEE CULLEN

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE MEN WERE KINGS, ALBEIT THEY WERE BLACK
Last Line: AND WE WERE BLACK,' THREE SHADES REPLY, 'BUT KINGS.'

Poem Sources:

SURVEY OF AMERICAN POETRY. VOLUME VIII: INTERVAL BETWEEN WARS.
  (1986)
 
THE POETRY OF BLACK AMERICA; ANTHOLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
  ADOFF, ARNOLD (ED.)
  (1973)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE FOR 1928.
  BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM S. (ED.)
  (1928)
 



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